Big Pickles

[WARNING] This post is probably PG-13 or so. Proceed at your own risk.

This is an excerpt from a review of the movie from a man's perspective. I don't know who wrote it or where it's from, but if I ever track it down I will give proper attribution.

Ultimately this film and the books, I suspect, are the work of a person who understands the most narcissistic fantasies of young women. This story isn't about love. It's about a fantasy that every woman has to be so special that she is chosen by the impossibly gorgeous, horrifically powerful yet timid and gentle man of her dreams. In this case, all the aforementioned criteria are fulfilled by his being a "vegetarian vampire."

I'm not picking on girls here--the equivalent of this for guys is two chicks at the same time. Every guy wants to be so strong and handsome and smooth that two gorgeous women that every other guy wants are so attracted to him that they forgo their inhibitions and take him at the same time.

Labels: books, movies

Tonight during dinner I put some Artur Rubinstein on the stereo. Amy thought the first Chopin piano solo sounded like "Hot Cross Buns." At least she recognizes piano music, I guess.

Benjamin was less impressed. "Can't we listen to David Bowie?"

By the way, just in case I haven't linked to AMG before, it's basically the IMDB of music.

Labels: music

Dan asked in the comments a couple of weeks ago how I could like Obama and Ron Paul. I wanted to answer that it's because Liberal and Libertarian kind of sound the same. But I addressed the issue in a post I made back in February. I still feel like Obama is more grounded in real-world, workable solutions, and less driven by ideology than anyone else running. His FISA vote back in June exemplified that, I think. It was a cold bucket of water on the heads of lefties who assumed Obama would always be their anti-Bush.

Also in that post I mentioned how Steven Leavitt, author of Freakonomics, predicted Obama would be president on his blog back in November 2006.

I was reminded of that when I happened upon this electoral map resulting from a survey conducted that month. Obama 28, McCain 510. He's come a long way.

Labels: politics

This guy really likes John Williams. So he wrote a song that's kind of a medley of John William's movie scores, except he doesn't use any of the music from Star Wars. Instead, all the lyrics are about Star Wars. And it's an a capella quartet, and he sings all four parts.

Why is everything cool on the Internet so confusing to describe? Just watch it.

Labels: music, video